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The Influence Of Socio-cultural Variables And Marital Stability Among Couples
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1.9 Conceptual Definition of Terms
For easy comprehension of this study, all conceptual terms were defined thus:
1.
Culture: This is defined as a term emerged whole of idea and things
produced by men in their historical experience by 1910 America
Anthropologists were using “Culture†to refer to distractive of traits
characterizing particular tribal societies.
2. Culture Heritage:
This is a process of bringing together people of different ideas and
cultural background to have common interest and perceive a common goal.
3. Marriage: The legal joining together of two person’s of opposite sex as husband and wife.
4.
Socio-Economic Status (SES): This refers to the combined influence of
income, occupation, reduction, cultural tastes or values and prestige on
social ranking. (Bidwell and Vendor, 1999).
5. Social Status:
Mey (1998) defined social status as groups of individual who are
accorded similar levels of prestige within the community and who share
similar cultural taste, interest, patterns of consumptions and life
styles.
6. Stability: This refers to something that is fixed, not
likely to move or change its position. In simple terms, the quality of
being stable.
7. Cohabitation: This is the act of living together of a man and a woman without formal marriage as husband and wife.
8.
Communication: According to Adanma (1980), communication is the act of
interaction between two individuals or from one person or group to
another. It is the act of transmitting news or information between the
source and the receiver through a medium.
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]The study examined the influence of socio-cultural variables and marital stability among couples in Lagos Metropolis in Mushin Local Government Area of Lagos StateThe descriptive research survey was applied in the assessment of the respondents’ opinions in this study. The stratified sampling technique was employed in selecting the samples for this study. A total of 160 (one hundred and sixty) respondents were selected for this study to represent the entire population of the study. For nul ... Continue reading---
